Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-08-13
IN THE cHATswoRTH HOSPITAL.
Death of Miss Vaidejo-other sufferers
Serious Cases-Unidentified.

lteHtn OF MISS tafneJO-ptnef ShUtfeie-
Serious Cases-Unidentified.
CHATswoRTH, Ill, Aug. lS.-More people
were in Chatsworth Friday than ever before
in its history. Standing room, even, on the
platforms of the incoming trains was at a
premium, and two thirds of the farmers with
in radius of fifteen miles brought in their
wives and families 1t was quiet throng
The row of rough pine collins which occupied
two-thirds of the station platform, and the
cries and groans in the improvised hopital Il
few feet away, had depressing effect upon
the visitors Hundred OF them went down to
the scene of the wreck and stood for hours in
the broiliug sun watching the work of clear
ing the track and rebuilding the bridge Hun
dreds more be;ieged the hospital and crowded
into the narrow aisles between the cots with
such persStency that 1t was found necessary
to station guards outside to keep them at Il
distance.
Inside the scenes were distressing in the ex-
treme. There were twenty-five patients,
equally divided as to sex. OF these
JULIA vALDEJo,
of Peoria, suffered the greatest agony. She
was in the parlor-caT which was literally
split in half, and the same crash that deprived
her of CONSCIOUSNESS killed her mother Her
injury was in the abdominal region and every
breath increased her pain and brought the
fair sufferer nearer the grave. Her cousins,
Charles and Eugene Zimmerman, divided
their time between their cousin and the cot
ad Joining where rested their brother and his
wife, both badly injured All that medical
science could do was done for the wealthy
,ba. H,f avail nd do
night she was numbered among the dead Il
have crossed the ocean more than once and
Travelled all over Europe" she said Friday
morning, land it is hard that | should come
to this when so near to home, She was
conscious up to within an hour of her DEATH
when her sulferings became so intense that
she was placed under the influence of NOR
phine
REVOLVING PICTU RE.
To picture of the horrible occurrences i'm
medlately succeeding the accident could
equal in revolving details the scene at the To
ledo, Peoria & Western station Friday. The
west end of the little structure is coal house
and lumber room where promiscuously
stretched on the coal and rubbish were seven
unidentified bodies Blood-stained, bedrag-
gled sheets and blankets were loosely thrown
over each, but afforded little protection from
the swarm of flies continuously lowering over
them. The awful odor emanating from the
bodies effectually kept the room clear of all
but the hardest of the still lingering anx
ious or curious crowds Two of the victims
were women, and the sight of their faces was
one never to be forgotten The distorted
features, wide, staring eyes, and purifying
wounds were gaEed at but an instant even by
those looking foi missing mother or daugh
ter
The east end of the station was in even worse
confusion than the west; the floor continyisd
strewn with unclaimed baggage in an mex
tricabls mix. Little knots of people wer,
paving over the broken sachels and masses Of
soiled, torn underwear and trumpery, belong
ing to the victims of the wreck Here little
infants garments, and there the crumpled re
mains of widows bonnet A little down the
road is a large vacant furniture store, IL
which thirteen corpses were fostering. Six
of them were men, the Others were women
and children Most of the thirteen had not
yet been recognized by friends, and then